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Delivery

Today I spent thirty minutes composing an email to a big deal art scholar who has written tons of books and happens to be the curator of the Warburg Institute photograph collection in London. She is a huge big deal and I want very badly to meet her when I’m there—so badly in fact that I spent thirty minutes composing one paragraph. To my utter horror, I just realized that I ended the email with: “Thank you for you time.” I labored over every word, reading each sentence out loud several times to ensure flow and accuracy. Thank you for you time, Elizabth McGrath. I hope you have a sense of humor.